Euphonious voyage 1

 It was a meeting of musical, cultural and spiritual paths, a point of enlightenment sometimes discovered with the assistance of a medicinal compass, other times through the mystical literature of Kesey, Huxley and Ginsberg. The point of arrival was the mid-sixties, and once the younger generation finally converged, there was an explosion of energy, color, creativity and sound. This was not a generation that would be identified by a distinctive music style molded for their consumption by a cliche-ridden old guard. These young pied pipers would use their altered states of perception and the drumbeat of revolution and create a sound track that reflected individual trips as opposed to a monolithic journey.

“Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream”

With a “the sky’s the limit” attitude, there was no ceiling to the musical variations explored or the intensity with which they would be exploited. Practitioners of straight pop would use the genre to examine an occasional trippy impulse, while others would focus exclusively on mind-expanding album length head trips. The potpourri of styles tossed together with the new “turned-on” sound made pop-psych a fascinating sub genre rife with flashes of folk, electronic, sunshine pop, raga, soul and rock.

Enjoy

Ty To Original Sharer

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